Editing device and editing method
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorKenji Saito
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Abstract
In an editing apparatus of audiovisual information including moving picture information, audiovisual information is stored in a hard disk drive or the like, and editing information is stored in a hard disk drive. After retrieve is started, pictures are extracted and displayed among the picture information from the current position to a destination position, and a picture at the retrieve destination is displayed thereafter. Thus, after a situation on the shift of the pictures is displayed during some time, an editor can recognize the completion of retrieve. The retrieve mode includes a constant time retrieve, a constant speed retrieve, and an accelerating and decelerating retrieve. A picture indicating a state under retrieve can be added to the pictures during retrieve.
Claims45
An editing apparatus for editing audiovisual information including at least moving picture information and audio information accompanied therewith, comprising:
- a first storage device operable to store input audiovisual information including moving pictures;
- a display device operable to display moving pictures read from said first storage device;
- an operation device operable to set editing information including time positions on the audiovisual information stored in said first storage device;
- a second storage device operable to store editing information set by said operation device on the audiovisual information stored in said first storage device;
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- a display controller operable to instruct said display device to display moving pictures based on the editing information stored in said second storage device;
- wherein according to an instruction to change a first picture at a first time position displayed currently by said display device to a second picture at a second time position in the moving pictures stored in said first storage device, said display controller is operable to select a number of selected pictures, from among the moving pictures stored in said first storage device, the selected pictures being selected between the first picture at the first time position and the second picture at the second time position in an order of time position in the moving pictures, the number of the selected pictures being smaller than a total number of the stored moving pictures that are between the first time position and the second time position, and to shift a currently displayed picture from the first picture at the first time position to the second picture at the second time position by instructing said display device to display the selected pictures sequentially according to the order of time position.
An editing method for reading and displaying audiovisual information from a storage medium storing audiovisual information including at least moving picture information and audio information accompanied therewith based on editing information, said method comprising:
- storing input audiovisual information, including moving pictures, in a first storage device;
- storing, in a second storage device, editing information of the audiovisual information stored in the first storage device;
- displaying moving pictures read from the first storage device;
- selecting according to an instruction to change a first picture at a first time position displayed currently by a display device to a second picture at a second time position in the moving pictures stored in the first storage device, a number of selected pictures from among the moving pictures stored in the first storage device, the selected pictures being selected between the first time position and the second time position in the moving pictures in an order of time position, the first picture and the second picture being included in the selected pictures, the number of the selected pictures being smaller than a total number of the stored moving pictures that are between the first time position and the second time position;
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- shifting a currently displayed picture from the first picture at the first time position in the moving pictures to the second picture at the second time position in the moving pictures by displaying the selected pictures sequentially according to the order of time position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.